DDT: Week 92, Part II – Jamal Khashoggi, GOP’s Promotion of Violence

The tragic events in the U.S. have taken front and center over the vicious murder of U.S. resident and WaPo reporter Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabians in their Turkish embassy, but the Saudis continue to contrive a number of explanations for the horrific event since October 2, 2018.

Robbie Gramer, Diplomacy/National Security Reporter, tweeted a “tongue-in-cheek” sequence of events listing Saudi’s “official” positions since Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi embassy in Turkey to get papers so that he could marry his fiancé:

He’s not dead; he left the consulate; we have evidence.

OK, he has disappeared.

OK, he may be dead.

OK, he’s dead but we didn’t do it.

OK, he’s dead, but it was a rogue group who worked for us.

OK he’s dead and we did it, but it was only because a 1 vs. 15 fight broke out.